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• EU considering tougher rules for medical devices
  European Union officials are calling for stricter rules governing the safety and monitoring of medical devices, Reuters reports. The proposals come in the wake of a global scandal in which hundreds of thousands of women around the world received breast implants prone to rupture and leaking, made by ...

• Insurers want reimbursement for medical device costs
  Insurance companies, which often end up on the hook for expenses when a medical device fails, are pursuing legal action to recoup more of the health services costs from manufacturers. According to a Reuters report, the biggest recalls can lead to billions of dollars in expenses, and medical device m...

• J&J settles lawsuits over harmed patients
  Johnson & Johnson has agreed to settle five lawsuits in Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas, based on claims that its antipsychotic drug Risperdal caused five boys to grown breast tissue. Terms of the settlement weren’t disclosed, Bloomberg reports. The lawsuits are among more than 400 in which...

• Many potential causes of urinary incontinence
  Urinary incontinence can be an embarrassing condition that often involves some inconvenient lifestyle changes. But according to the Mayo Clinic, it’s sometimes a result of easily treatable medical conditions. Those conditions include: (more…) ...

• Drug company fraud settlements at record highs
  Nonprofit organization Public Citizen reports that state settlements with drug companies over Medicaid fraud are at an all-time high. The report says many states have recovered just as much, if not more, money from pharmaceutical companies accused of defrauding Medicaid programs as they spent on all...

• J&J CEO gets out of testifying in trial
  The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that lawyers representing pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson successfully quashed a subpoena to compel CEO Alex Gorsky to testify about allegations that inappropriate marketing harmed children taking the company’s drugs. The case involves a 17-year-old boy...

• Former manager: J&J encouraged illegal tactics
  A former Johnson & Johnson sales manager testified that the company promoted the illegal marketing of its antipsychotic drug Risperdal through tactics such as paying doctors to give favorable speeches and subsidizing golf trips, Bloomberg reports. In 2003, company officials specifically urged sa...

• Big Pharma joining up to get drugs on market faster
  According to an article in the New York Times, 10 of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies are banding together to form a “nonprofit organization” called TransCelerate BioPharma that will be devoted to streamlining clinical trials and getting drugs on the market sooner. The report quote...

• Medical products companies bribing doctors
  According to a Reuters story, sales representatives for Abbott Laboratories Inc’s subsidiaries routinely buy gifts for physicians in India to bribe them into prescribing certain drugs. The practice is so blatant that an Abbott sales-strategy guide explicitly states that doctors who pledge to p...

• Different factors can trigger urinary incontinence
  According to the Mayo Clinic, urinary incontinence isn’t a disease but a symptom. It can be caused by everyday habits, underlying medical conditions or physical problems. Available treatment for urinary incontinence includes surgery, medication and physical therapy. But some treatments have pr...